JST_HB Workshoppers, Join us today as we host Prof. Saul Olyan, Samuel Ungerleider Jr. Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University who will be presenting on “Family Religion in Israel and the Wider Levant of First Millennium B.C.” As always the event takes place in Swift hall, rm 403 @6pm, ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, Join us this coming Monday, Nov. 22nd, as we host Distinguished Service Prof. Emeritus Peter Dembowski. He will be giving a book talk on his book Christians in the Warsaw Ghetto: An Epitaph for the Unremembered. The event will take place, as always, in Swift Hall, rm 403, at 6pm on Monday, Nov. ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, Join us on Monday Nov. 8th as we host Los Angeles Times Best Selling Author David Sax as he presents on his James Beard Award winning book: Save The Deli: In Search of Perfect Pastrami, Crusty Rye, and the Heart of Jewish Delicatessen. The event is to be catered by Manny’s Deli, so ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, After a brief respite we continue again, this time with Anne Knafl, PhD Candidate in Hebrew Bible at the Divinity School, University of Chicago, who will be presenting a chapter of her dissertation entitled “Divine Anthropomorphism and the Theophanies at Bethel (Gen 28:10-22; 35:1-15). The paper as well as handout are available here: PAPER ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, Welcome back to a new and exciting year in the Jewish Studies and the Hebrew Bible Workshop. Below is our schedule thus far for the Autumn quarter of ’10. Oct. 11 – Ben Thomas, PhD Candidate in NELC at the University of Chicago, presenting on “A Story of Silence: Deuteronomism and the Prophecy ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, For the final event of the academic year Jacqueline E. Papour, PhD student in NELC at the University of Chicago, will be presenting on “Teaching and Family in Proverbs 31:10-31.” A handout with translations is available for download by clicking HERE. The event will be on TUESDAY June 1st at 6pm in Swift hall ...

JST_HB Workshoppers, The paper for Prof. Adam Lipszyc’s presentation on “Silence inscribed: Derrida reading Rosenzweig, while reading Kierkegaard” is available for download HERE. The workshop will take place in Swift Hall rm 403 on Monday May 24th at 6pm. See you all there!

JST_HB Workshoppers: Below are the dates and topics for the remaining workshops of the academic year. I thank you all for your participation over the past year and look forward to your continued presence in our forum. May 17th – Prof. Thomas Romer, Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Faculty of Theology at the University ...

JST_HB Workshoppers It is my pleasure to announce that we will be hosting Ms. Heather Miller Rubens, PhD Candidate in the History of Judaism at the University of Chicago Divinity School, this coming Monday in our forum. She will be presenting on “Lucien Wolf: A “-Jewish” Journalist.” The event will take place THIS COMING MONDAY, ...